The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved plans to build that nine-story hotel next to the Merchant’s House Museum in the East Village. [NY Observer] Former New York Times culture reporter Milton Esterow, editor…
Jason Wishnow Did a Secret Sci-Fi Film With Ai Weiwei and Ended Up Near Bald
Jason Wishnow has told the story of Oedipus with vegetables and documented zombie yoga in Williamsburg. Now, fresh off a stint as TED’s director of film and video, the Lower…
Ilan Hall On Gorbals BK, Season 2 of Knife Fight, and Wrangling Action Bronson
Today we spoke by phone with Ilan Hall, who will soon open an East Coast outpost of his LA restaurant, The Gorbals inside the new…
Tour the Urban Outfitters Store, Space Ninety 8, Now Open in Williamsburg
A thousand people lined up to get carded last night outside of Space Ninety 8, the five-story Urban Outfitters concept store officially opening today in…
El Sombrero Lives Again; Bootleg Bar Opens in Bushwick
Five more cases of measles have been diagnosed and attributed to that outbreak that started in February, bringing the total number of patients to 25.…
It’s Official: Vice Is Taking Over the Beacon’s Closet Space
There’ll soon be twice the Vice on North 11th Street. A source at Vice Media now confirms that it will expand its Williamsburg headquarters into the adjacent space…
Domino Debate Rages On; More Weekend Train Shutdowns A Comin’
At a contentious City Council hearing, there was some lively debate about the number of market-rate apartments that the Domino development could bring to Williamsburg.…
What’s On the Racks at the Newly Reopened Beacon’s Closet
Despite weekend flood warnings, plenty of secondhand shoppers waded to an idle stretch of Greenpoint for the grand re-opening of Beacon’s Closet.
Hear Gary Shteyngart Talk ‘Immigrants, Tenements, Failure, All That Good Stuff’
If you paid $85 to listen to New York Times bestselling author Gary Shteyngart read from his memoir at Calliope, you might want to stop reading here.…
Hard Up For Entertainment? Porn Karaoke, Gay Porn Classics, and a Sex Show!
As if those 42 kooky, kinky films weren’t enough to satisfy, this week seems to be a particularly raunchy one for local theater and performance.